Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	111% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	101% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	17.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 21 '17 at 13:28
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 233 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 636 62% 507 Pts	64-Core 611 38% 611 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 150 Parallax 129 123% 143 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 139 Splatting 109 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1998 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 112 (B1) Unknown 99 99 43 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 50 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6037631093	101% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 485 Mixed 479 109% 488 MB/s	4K Read 39.9 4K Write 97.1 4K Mixed 30.7 151% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 201 DQ Write 97.9 DQ Mixed 104 89% 134 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
Samsung MZVLV128HCGR-000L1 128GB 297 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 40GB free Firmware: 5L0QBXV7 Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	Read 516 Write 152 Mixed 247 66% 305 MB/s	4K Read 15.2 4K Write 143 4K Mixed 17.5 121% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 10.7 74% 178 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 107%
WD WD30EZRS-00J99B0 3TB 2,807 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 160 151 8966 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 16 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 73 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 14 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 15 (C2) HDA temperature 121 111 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	68.5% Good	Read 119 Write 120 Mixed 110 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.17 87% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 72%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 471GB free Firmware: CC51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 52628872 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3950 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7833146 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20842 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1012 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 45 689897508 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 44 44 112179 (C2) HDA temperature 36 55 8589934628 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 126229088833812 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10299197878 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5020155578	67.3% Good	Read 115 Write 120 Mixed 106 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 0.75 4K Mixed 0.16 60% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 4x8GB 2,056 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	58.6% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 18.2 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.7 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 77%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16